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G. B. STEIN'HAUER.

ARM REST.

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1 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE B. STEINHAUER, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

ARM-REST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 455,583, dated July 7, 1891. Application filed February 11, 1891. Serial No. 381,041. (No model.)

will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying draw ings, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in arm-rests for supporting the arm while a glove is being fitted to the hand, and is designed as an improvement upon the invention disclosed in Letters Patent granted to me December 30, 1890, No. 443,839. The invention disclosed in said application consists, essentially, in a base-plate and two opposite upwardly-projecting supports, which receive and hold the arm while the glove is being fitted. I V

The object of the present invention is to improve the constrpction of said upwardlyextending supports, so that they may be ad justable to and from each other to conform to the different positions and movements of the arm of the person using the rest.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a central sectional View of an arm-rest constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a bottom view thereof.

In saiddrawings, the reference-numeral 1 designates a base-plate, which may be of metal, wood, or other suitable material. As shown, this plate consists of a top and side and end walls, and-in said top is an opening 2. Extending across this opening is a bar or rod 3, which serves as the journal for the two upwardly-extending arms 4 and 5, which form the supports for the arm. These supports are curved or rounded, so as to conform to the contour of the arm. At the lower ends at each side the arms are provided with lugs 6 and 7, through which passes the rod or bar 3. Loosely embracing this rod or bar is a coiled spring 8, one end of which bears against the lug 6 at one side of the supports, while the other end thereof bears against the lug 7 at the opposite side, the object of said spring being to prevent wabbling of'the supports. Depending centrally from the lower portions of the supports are studs 9, to the lower ends of which are loosely or pivotally connected the screw-threaded rods 10, which extend outwardly through apertures in each end of the base-plate and are provided with adj ustingthe forearm in the support 4, with the portion of the arm between the shoulder and elbow resting on the support 5, so that the same will be efficiently supported,t hereby enabling a glove to be readilyfitted to the hand. By manipulating the nuts 12 the supports 4 and 5 can be adjusted nearer to or farther from each other to suit limbs of different sizes, and also to conform to different positions of the arms.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. An arm-rest adapted to be secured to a counter or other object, consisting of the adjustable upwardly-extending curved supports for the fore and upper parts of the arm, having their lower ends extending inwardly, forming an elbow-rest, and a base-plate to which said supports are pivoted, substantially as described.

2. In an arm-rest, the combination, with the base-plate having an opening in its top or upper side and a pivot-pin secured to said base, of two opposite upwardly-extending supports having lugs journaled on said pivot-pin, the centrally-depending studs, rods connected with said studs andpassing through the ends of the base-plate, and adj usting-nnts, substantially as described.

3. In an arm-rest, the combination, with the base-plate having an opening in its top and a pivot-pin secured to said base, of the two opposite upwardly-extending supports having lugs journaled on said pivot-pin, the depend- I ing' studs, the rods connected with said studs, IO the adjusting-nuts, and the coiled spring enibracing said pivot and the ends bearing upon the lugs of the two supports, respectively, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature I 5 in presence of two witnesses.

, GEORGE 13. STEINHAUER. Vitnesses:

WILLIA J. BOURKE, HARVEY F. HEINLY. 

